Popular Assateague Island National Seashore Beach Access To Be Relocated
Erosion is threatening a beloved beach access point at Assateague Island National Seashore.
- By justin.housman - January 10th, 2025 6:33pm
Assateague Island National Seashore
Assateague Island National Seashore Reopens Beaches
Assateague Island National Seashore has reopened beaches that were closed earlier this week due to medical wastes and other garbage washing ashore.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 20th, 2024 4:36pm
Medical Wastes Lead To Closure Of Beaches At Assateague Island National Seashore
Medical wastes washing ashore at Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia and Maryland have led to a closure of all ocean-facing beaches to swimming or wading.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 16th, 2024 10:30am
Traveler's View: National Park Service Has Its Blinders On At Cumberland Island
A decade after the National Park Service acknowledged feral horses at Cumberland Island National Seashore are a nonnative species that has damaged natural, cultural, and historical resources and that a management plan needed to be developed for them, the agency still lacks such a plan and has endorsed a defense of legal technicalities to oppose emergency food and water for them.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 5th, 2024 4:43am
National Park Service Struggles With Feral Horses
In a coastal landscape of Spanish moss-draped live oaks, salt marshes, and white sand beaches, a land that offers nesting habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, is crawling with armadillos, and feeds Red knots, a threatened bird species, and wood storks, horses are incongruous.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 27th, 2024 1:30pm
Camping Fee Increase Proposed For Assateague Island National Seashore
An increase in camping fees is being proposed at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.
- By Compiled From N... - May 21st, 2023 2:30am
Dead Humpback Whale Washes Ashore At Assateague Island
For the second time in less than three weeks a dead humpback whale has washed ashore in the National Park System, this time at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland.
- By Compiled From N... - January 17th, 2023 1:30pm
Beach Driving Permits Going On Sale Soon At Assateague Island National Seashore
Permits to drive your rig on the beach at Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia will go on sale January 4.
- By Compiled From N... - December 15th, 2022 2:30am
World War II Ordnance Force Closure Of Swimming Area At Assateague Island National Seashore
A section of Assateague Island National Seashore's beachfront has been temporarily closed due to the presence of unexploded ordnance that has come to the surface there.
Under Water And Under Pressure
The National Park Service is facing a water conundrum: some parks have too little, some parks have too much. While an historic drought continues to parch much of the Western United States, a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicts that sea levels across the United States will rise, on average, 10-12 inches by 2050. In other words, from Maine to Florida to Texas and all the way up to Alaska, there are more than 100 national park units threatened by the slow siege of rising coastlines.
- By Kurt Repanshek - September 21st, 2024 10:54am
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